Sept 11th Related Quotes, The First 10 Days

I can you hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon! — George W. Bush

It’s just a catastrophe. It’s like it happened to Arabia. This is my second home. What happens to America happens to Arabia. It’s the same thing. We gotta get them and get them big. And do like we do in Arabia: an eye for an eye.” — Saudi Prince Ahmed bin Salmon

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. — George W. Bush

We found a helmet and some gear, but no body. We’ve got to keep looking. I’ve got a lot of friends in there. — Craig Techky

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them. — George W. Bush

When provoked by this level of barbarism, we will bear any suffering, pay any cost, go to any length, in the pursuit of justice…..I tell you this without fear of contradiction. I know my people, as you, I think, do not. What I know reassures me. It also causes me to tremble with dread of the future. — Leonard Pitts

Look at that metal, look at that metal, it’s going to buckle, it’s going to come down,’ and then there was an unreal, a thunderous roar, and we saw the top of it disappearing into the building. Everyone just stood there, in shock. And then the entire crowd started to cry, to sob. — Warren St. John

I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won’t. — John Mccain

The people who did this to us are monsters; the people who cheered them have hate-sickened minds. One reason they can cheer is that they know we would never do to them what their heroes did to us, even though we could, a thousand times worse. — Dave Barry

We send cruise missiles and then we think everything’s all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they’ve gone too far. This time we’re serious. This time we won’t quit until they are gone, completely gone from the face of the earth. — John Mccain

We think this was a cowardly act against civilians, and we are 100 percent against it. We are 100 percent with America, and we will do anything we can to get these people, to get justice. — Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum, (Dubai’s crown prince)

They have to understand, and others like them around the world have to understand, that if you provided sanctuary to terrorists, you face the full wrath of the United States. — Dick Cheney

The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. It is not our many Arab friends. Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists and every government that supports them. — George Bush

These terrorists…we have seen their kind before. They’re the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies. — George Bush

We will direct every resource at our command — every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war — to the destruction and to the defeat of the global terror network. — George Bush

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime. — George Bush

I know there are struggles ahead and dangers to face. But this country will define our times, not be defined by them. — George Bush

Our nation, this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter and we will not fail. — George Bush

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them. — George Bush

Some will remember an image of a fire or story or rescue. Some will carry memories of a face and a voice gone forever. And I will carry this. It is the police shield of a man named George Howard who died at the World Trade Center trying to save others. It was given to me by his mom, Arlene, as a proud memorial to her son. It is my reminder of lives that ended and a task that does not end. — George Bush

War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing. — George Bush

I will not forget the wound to our country and those who inflicted it. I will not yield, I will not rest, I will not relent in waging this struggle for freedom and security for the American people. — George Bush